Share Your Orders Thread

Just want to post that I’m 9 days in the new year and have not bought tea yet! It was actually a New Years Resolution to not buy any tea this year. I know that won’t happen because of sales that will come along but I’m going to try and go as long as possible. I’m going to my local tea place for lunch on Thursday though and I’m out of my Lemon Ginger Oolong! Guess 10 days in to a new year isn’t too bad, eh? LOL

Gah….I put myself under a ban from buying any teas til about March, maybe April. I’m trying to tell myself that it’s just as well because the less driving in the winter, the better. And I’ve yet to really get into ordering online much yet. I still got the rest of my samples to go thru, the tea my Mom gave me, and the stuff that I got before Christmas to try out yet, and not to mention my tea cupboard is ridiculously full so I have trouble hiding it from my Papa anyways.

Darby, maybe making a shorter goal would work better? I know that I definitely would not be able to last a year without buying more tea, even more Republic of Tea from Whole Foods or the Fruit Market. Or try to limit yourself to 1 tea buy a month, and or set a budget…those sometimes works with me.

As an interesting side note, my experience at Teavana was far better than what I read about here. When I asked for “exactly” a certain amount, I got it. At most, I was over poured by 0.2 oz. (which is pennies when the going price for most was $1.70/2 oz.) and always asked if it was okay before the ticket was printed. I did not receive the additional discount for buying in bulk (should have been an additional 15% off), but they did ring up a few teas at 75% off that were still regularly priced, so it evened out.

Just happy my first chawan arrived today. (been wanting one for 15 + years! I got one that is appropriate to any season to start with, but have others that will be arriving as well, some season specific) my Yuzamashi came today too, and earlier this month 2 Yunomi :)